penguin_gab

Hi, I'm a new Rails developer, who came from an iOS background. I have a couple of test Rails applications that I deployed on Heroku and AWS using Elastic Beanstalk.

However, I want to learn more, and go deeper into the world of sysadmin/devops, and learn how to deploy Rails apps directly to EC2, and set up all the configuration myself, instead of Elastic Beanstalk abstracting it away from me.

I've heard about configuration management tools like Chef etc.. but my UNIX and Linux skills are almost non-existent, so I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction, on what to begin learning first, and any resources you found useful.. thanks!

I'm hoping to get a rough survey of the sentiments by most developers regarding their employment. I know the dream of most hackers is to work in large tech companies like Google and Facebook, but other than that - what is the major difference/ turn-off of working at a consultancy-based company vs a product-based company?